Baal at places where he is known or supposed to have been 

 worshi])ped : Baal-bek (the city of Baal or tlie sun), Baal gad 

 (Baal's crowd), Gur-Baal, Baal-hasor, Baal-hamon, Baal-peor, 

 &c. Similarly we have Bei\\-M, afterwards called from the 

 golden calves Beth-Aveu (the house of the images), Beth.- Daff on 

 (the house of Dagon or the scaly fish), Beth-S/iemesh (the 

 house of Shemesh or the sun), Beth-i?6'^o^, &c. — In the names 

 of Greece and Bome, almost every hero and heroine, god and 

 goddess was commemorated, from Alexandria Ultima on the 

 table land of Asia, and Bucephalia^ on the Indus, to Junonis 

 in the modern Canaries, and the pillars of Hercules. Atkens 

 is said to have been named after an Egyptian goddess Neith ; 

 and following the analogy, Ital^ is currently derived from an 

 imaginary chieftain Italus, and Rome from an imaginary king 

 Eomulus. — In India, the name of Vishnu or the preserver is 

 shown in Fw^w^^-prayaga, and less distinctly in Bissen-^xd^^ 

 and Bissun-'^oox. Bam and Krishna, however, who are asso- 

 ciated with the incarnation of that deity, are commemorated in 

 Ram-^oov, Rama-^ixi, Ram-^WMj Krishna^ Krishna-^xjiX, 

 Kistna-geri, &c. 



In the British Islands, we recognise the names of gods 

 which were worshipped by our Saxon forefathers, in Wednes- 

 bury (the town of Odin or Woden), Tor-Ty5<?r-wald (the castle 

 of Thor in the wood), and Thurso (Thorns island ?) But going 

 back still further, we can point to places where the worship 

 of Baal was practised at a period of remote antiquity. At 

 Callander and Logerait in Perthshire, at various other points 

 in the Highlands, at Loudoun in Ayrshire, in some parts of 

 Lancashire, and in Munster and Connaught, the peasantry 

 celebrate the Beltane (i. e. Beal-tinne or Baal fires) by leaping 

 through the fire, casting lots, burning bones, eating cakes 

 of a particular kind, or repeating forms of words, — little 

 knowing the origin of the customs which they perpetuate. t 



■^ Named from Bueephalus, the horse of Alexander. 

 + Janiiesun's Scotlisli Dictionary; Peiiiiy CyoloiK-dia; Notes to the Annuls of the 

 Four Masler* ; &c. 



